Poolfrog

I agree about the Tomkins book. It's OK, but it's taken me about three months to get just over half-way through it. Basically it's fairly thin on content so stretches everything out and takes a long time to get anywhere. Style-wise too, he seems to use italics and brackets on every line and loads of subordinate clauses, so it doesn't flow particularly well. It is worth a read but I doubt it would appeal very much to non-Reds' fans, which is probably the true test of its value as a written work

I saw him play from around 1965 onwards. A very orthodox outside right at first. No great dribbling skill, unlike the great Peter Thompson on the other wing, but he was very fast over the first five yards and would knock the ball past the full-back and invariably beat him for speed and get a cross in. He had a great knack of being able to be running at high speed towards the line and still get a cross over with great accuracy when he looked like his momentum would carry him flying into the Kop. Strangely enough I went to one of our semi-finals at Hillsborough - can't remember which one - after he retired, went to the gents and who should be standing at the next urinal to me but Cally. He looked exactly like he did in his playing days but was surprisingly short - and I'm only 5ft 10ins and a bit, but I towered over him